- NV: Las Vegas officer who murdered homeowner resigns from department
Source: News 3 Las Vegas
“The Las Vegas police officer who shot and killed a local homeowner after the man called 911 for help has resigned from the department, authorities said. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said Officer Alexander Bookman resigned effective March 27. News 3 also reached out to the Las Vegas Police Protective Association, which said Bookman was eligible to return to work but chose to resign. The resignation follows the shooting death of Brandon Durham, 43, who was killed less than 15 seconds after Bookman entered Durham’s home on November 12, 2024. … Body-worn camera video showed Bookman kicking down Durham’s front door, entering the home and shooting Durham as he struggled over a knife with an intruder police identified as Alejandra Boudreaux.” (07/27/26)
- Iran: Regime employees kill two men convicted of killing four police officers in January protests
Source: New York Post
“Iran on Tuesday hanged two men convicted in a case of killing four police officers during January protests, state media reported. A report by Mizanonline. ir, affiliated to the country’s judiciary, identified the two as Abolfazl Sepahi Badjani and Amir Hossein Safari Hosseinabadi, saying they also set a police station on fire and damaged public properties in the central city of Isfahan, some 250 miles south of the capital, Tehran. The two men are the latest executed from among the tens of thousands who were arrested during a January crackdown on nationwide protests.” (07/28/26)
- Myanmar: Junta approves death sentence in crackdown on scam centres
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“Myanmar’s military-backed parliament approved a law on Tuesday that authorises capital punishment for those who detain or violently coerce victims into working in online scam centres, the speaker said. The ‘Anti-Online Scam Bill’ was passed after MPs approved changes to a draft bill at a combined meeting of the lower and upper houses Tuesday morning in the capital Naypyidaw, Union Parliament Speaker Aung Lin Dwe said during a live television broadcast. Lower house MP Aye Chan confirmed to Agence France-Presse that the death sentence remained in the approved version of the law. … Internet fraud factories have flourished in war-torn Myanmar, part of Southeast Asia’s thriving scam economy, targeting web users worldwide with romance and cryptocurrency investment cons.” (07/28/26)
- Chile: Regime captures fugitive convicted of singer Victor Jara’s murder under Pinochet
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Police in Chile say they have captured a man convicted years ago of the kidnapping and murder of popular folk singer Victor Jara under military ruler Augusto Pinochet. Nelson Haase was one of a group of officers given jail terms for the killing, which took place just five days after the coup which brought Pinochet to power in 1973. He was sentenced to 25 years. Haase took flight when the sentence was announced in August 2023 but was found by police on Saturday in the south of the country. Jara, who became famous in the 1960s and 70s for his protest and pacifist songs and supported the ousted socialist president Salvador Allende, was subjected to torture and shot 44 times.” (07/28/26)
- Haiti: Regime schedules December presidential election despite security concerns
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Haiti’s CEP electoral council on Monday scheduled the first presidential elections in a decade for December with a runoff in February, after plans to hold the vote in August with a December runoff were postponed over security concerns. Haiti has not held elections since 2016. Its last president, Jovenel Moise, was assassinated in 2021, after delaying a vote. Successive governments have been tasked with holding an election but said insecurity amid a conflict with powerful armed gangs made it impossible.” (07/27/26)
- Trump to host Netanyahu, Zelenskyy
Source: AOL
“U.S. President Donald Trump hosts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday, with wars in Iran and Ukraine at critical stages and his ties with both leaders markedly different. Relations with Zelenskiy have warmed as Ukraine has blunted Russian advances, while Netanyahu arrives amid growing White House frustration over the lack of progress toward a broader settlement in the Iran conflict and criticism from some of Trump’s supporters who oppose deeper U.S. involvement in the Middle East. The two men are in Washington to attend a memorial service for Senator Lindsey Graham, a hawkish Republican who was one of Trump’s closest allies and who frequently tried to coax Trump into providing more support for Ukraine’s war.” (07/28/26)
https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-host-netanyahu-zelenskiy-ukraine-050302000.html
- Brazilian, Chinese regimes accelerate trade deal negotiations
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“Chinese President Xi Jinping and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva agreed on Sunday night to accelerate negotiations for a trade agreement between China and Mercosur, a striking reversal for Brasilia, which for years led resistance to such a deal in the South American bloc. The two leaders spoke by telephone for more than an hour, according to a statement from the Brazilian presidency, and ‘coincided on the importance of speeding up the talks for a Mercosur-China agreement that contemplates the necessary flexibilities’. … The call came days after a 25 per cent tariff imposed by US President Donald Trump on [American buyers of] part of Brazil’s exports took effect.” (07/28/26)
- Iranian regime denies seeking US negotiations, rejects Trump’s remarks
Source: WION [India]
“Iran has rejected US President Donald Trump’s claim that negotiations with Washington are underway, with the country’s Foreign Ministry insisting that no talks are currently taking place between the two sides. In a statement on Monday (July 27), the ministry said Iran was ‘not engaged in any negotiations with the United States’ and dismissed suggestions that Tehran had sought to restart dialogue, saying such an approach was ‘not in our DNA’. Instead, it claimed it was Washington that had requested talks, according to Iranian news agency Tasnim. The remarks came despite a pause in the recent military confrontation between Iran and the United States, with both sides refraining from launching fresh strikes for a second consecutive day.” (07/28/26)
- Trump regime asks SCOTUS to intervene to allow postal election-rigging scheme
Source: CNBC
“The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to intervene in a legal fight over President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in voting, escalating the dispute 99 days before the November midterm elections. The emergency request came after a federal appeals court, in a 2-1 decision Saturday, left in place an order blocking key parts of Trump’s executive order issued in March that directs federal agencies to create voter eligibility lists and restrict U.S. Postal Service delivery of ballots not tied to those lists. A coalition of 23 states argue Trump lacks authority to impose federal rules on elections administered by state and local officials.” (07/27/26)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/27/trump-supreme-court-mail-in-voting-restrictions.html
- US, French regimes trade barbs in fight over UN rights chief’s second term
Source: Reuters
“The U.S. walked out as France addressed a United Nations Security Council meeting on Ukraine on Monday, accusing its longtime ally of ‘disingenuous grandstanding’ over French comments comparing the U.S. to North Korea, Russia and other authoritarian states regarding votes on human rights issues. The move followed a tense weekend exchange between the two permanent Security Council members on X in which France blasted Washington for joining Russia, North Korea and seven other countries in voting against a proposal to extend the term of Volker Turk as the U.N. rights chief for four more years. … The U.N. General Assembly on Friday voted overwhelmingly to extend the term of Turk, an outspoken critic of Russia’s war in Ukraine and Israel’s conduct in Gaza who has also called for investigations into deaths in U.S. immigration custody. The term extension has been opposed by Russia, Israel and others, with Washington threatening to reassess its funding and engagement.” (07/27/26)
- US FDA approves blood test for colorectal cancer
Source: Reuters
“The U.S. FDA has approved Freenome’s blood-based colorectal cancer screening test for older adults, paving the way for partner Abbott to launch it in the U.S. this fall, the companies said on Monday.
Shares of Freenome were up about 4% in morning trading. … The test, SimpleScreen CRC, detects signals linked to colorectal cancer from DNA fragments circulating in the blood. Abbott is likely to market SimpleScreen to people who do not complete or decline stool-based screening tests, Brennan said.” (07/27/26)
- What Being a Digital Nomad Taught Me About the Real World
Source: Persuasion
by Sam Kahn“About three years ago I pulled up stakes and moved to the far side of the world. My reasons for this were so personal and idiosyncratic that I don’t talk about this all that much—largely because I don’t feel that there’s much about this decision that would be particularly applicable to anybody else. But one thing you learn in journalism is that you should never let an opportunity to opine go to waste, and having made a really significant, life-changing decision like this one—moving from New York City to, of all the world’s unexpected places, Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan—it seems like sooner or later I should see if I’ve learned anything from it. So what have I learned?” (07/27/26)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/what-i-learned-from-moving-to-the
- Parents must hold failed school leaders accountable at the polls
Source: New York Post
by Shirin Yadegar“As parents, when we send our children to school each morning, we trust that the adults in charge are making decisions that put students first. Newly revealed documents suggest that trust may have been misplaced. According to The California Post, LAUSD’s own financial experts warned district leaders that bowing to union demands and approving substantial employee pay raises would put the district on an unsustainable financial path. The board ignored those warnings, and the raises were approved anyway. Now the district faces the very fiscal challenges its own experts predicted.” [editor’s note: If you trust the “adults in charge” of government “schools” with your kids, you’re already skipping merrily down the path of error. Instead of voting harder, homeschool – TLK] (07/27/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/07/27/opinion/parents-must-hold-failed-school-leaders-accountable/
- Trump must be held to account for Iran, but don’t expect Congress to act
Source: The Hill
by Harlan Ullman“If the Constitution were working as designed, and if both political parties acted in the best interests of the nation and weren’t obsessed with eviscerating the disloyal opposition, the U.S. skirmish against Iran would have ended. Having promised an immediate victory in what Commander in Chief Donald Trump first called an ‘excursion,’ the U.S. has been drawn deeper into what increasingly appears to be an unwinnable quagmire. So, make no mistake: This is war. But in a war, who has the power to authorize or make a formal declaration of war? Not the president. Only Congress has this responsibility. And it has deserted and fled from its duty.” (07/27/26)
https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/foreign-policy/5989637-congress-fails-war-powers-act/
- Arrogance and condescension: How liberty’s enemies view the world
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton“These people (regressives who call themselves ‘progressives,’ Tranzis (transnational socialists or progressives), socialists (democratic or not), Marxists, communists, social justice warriors, etc.) are a pestilence upon the land. (Which land? EVERY land, frankly, not just the States.) In their incredible lack of ability to reason and understand, they believe that everyone else is more stupid than they are. Even while they daily exhibit their stupidity!” (07/27/26)
- Your Fraudulent Vote Counts
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob“Give it to ABC News host Jonathan Karl! On This Week Without George Stephanopoulos, Karl asked U.S. Senator Mark Warner of Virginia not about the entirety of the SAVE Act but ‘very narrowly’ about photo ID to vote, which Americans of both parties strongly favor. ‘You know what?’ the senator responded. ‘In Virginia, we have voter I.D. and photo I.D.’ ‘That’s actually not the case,’ Karl corrected.” (07/27/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/07/27/your-fraudulent-vote-counts/
- ICE Finds New Ways to Expand Detention
Source: The American Prospect
by Whitney Curry Wimbish“Although the government has abandoned plans to repurpose warehouses into immigration prisons, it is still in pursuit of greater physical capacity for immigration detention, including overseas. Recent solicitation requests show that federal officials are seeking facilities with room to hold up to 6,000 people across Colorado, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Washington state, as well as thousands more in camps in Guatemala and elsewhere around the world. ” (07/28/26)
- Court Packing Is a Dangerous Gambit Best Avoided
Source: The UnPopulist
by Ilya Somin“Court-packing has once again become a major focus of political contention, with many on the political left advocating it in response to what they believe are badly flawed and illegitimate decisions by the Supreme Court. In a recent article for The UnPopulist, Andy Craig provides reluctant support for court-packing, but with a twist he argues will minimize the danger: combining court-packing with a constitutional amendment imposing term limits on Supreme Court justices that would—if enacted—reverse the packing. The term-limit system would give every president two appointments per term, thereby potentially producing more ideological balance on the bench. Craig’s proposal is clever and a cut above more conventional defenses of court-packing. But I remain unpersuaded.” (07/27/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/court-packing-is-a-dangerous-gambit
- “Free Stuff” in Norway Still Costs Half of Average Pay
Source: The Daily Economy
by Joakim Book“When American politicians or intellectuals promise Nordic welfare states, most people imagine this happening automatically or by taxing the rich, and everybody benefits. That’s not the case. The real Nordic model taxes earners more (45 percent in Denmark, 40 in Norway, 41 in Sweden, compared to 25 percent in the United States) and charging flat value added tax (VAT). Broad welfare states require broad tax bases; Nordic welfare states are financed not by billionaires but by ordinary workers.” (07/27/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/free-stuff-in-norway-still-costs-half-of-average-pay/
- Hegseth’s War on Leaks Is A War on Accountability
Source: Independent Institute
by Abigail R Hall“A whistleblower is an employee or a former employee who reveals information about wrongdoing inside an organization. As my coauthors and I have written, whistleblowers have played a critical role in exposing government abuses in democratic societies. Ideally, government officials act only to benefit the public. Should they act opportunistically or against the public interest, they would be punished through mechanisms like the voting booth, prosecution, or impeachment. Literature on the economics of politics, or ‘public choice,’ however, illustrates that real democratic institutions deviate from this ideal as a result of information asymmetries, in which some actors have more or better information than others, voter ignorance, and the organizational structures of politics. These imperfections are amplified in the national security state.” (07/27/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/07/27/hegseths-war-on-leaks-is-a-war-on-accountability/
- The American Presidency and Perpetual War
Source: Antiwar.com
by Andrew P Napolitano“One of the defining failures of modern American government has been the steady erosion of Congress’s constitutional authority over war. The Constitution grants Congress — not the president — the power to declare war. Congress decides to go to war. The president wages it. Over the past several decades, presidents of both major parties have increasingly treated military intervention as an executive prerogative rather than a congressional requirement. The last six presidents have not reflected distinct foreign policy doctrines but a uniparty continuum of executive overreach.” (07/27/26)
- No, Remote Work Is Not Making Us Miserable
Source: Reason
by Elizabeth Nolan Brown“People like working from home. It lets us avoid commutes. It lets us live closer to family. It seems especially good for the parents of young children, and it could even boost birth rates. This seems like an indisputable tech success story. Thanks to a plethora of modern technologies and applications—the internet, smartphones, VPNs, video calls, instant messaging platforms like Slack, cloud-based software and documents, and so on—remote work has become a possibility for more people than ever, and that’s a good thing. But are we all kidding ourselves about the benefits of remote work? Are we suffering from false consciousness? Do we only think we like it while it’s actually making us miserable somehow?” (07/27/26)
https://reason.com/2026/07/27/no-remote-work-is-not-making-us-miserable/
- The Economics of Status
Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman“It seems obvious that, if one’s concern is status rather than real income, we are in a zero sum game, that if my status increases relative to yours, yours must have decreased relative to mine. That point of view seems to support the approach to politics that sees it mainly as a question of who gets to benefit at the expense of whom, of which side who is on. Like many things that seem obvious, this one is false. It is true that my status is relative to yours. It does not, oddly enough, follow that if my status is higher than yours, yours must be lower than mine, or that if my status increases someone else’s must decrease. Status is not, in fact, a zero sum game.” (07/27/26)
https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/the-economics-of-status
- Will Mamdani have the courage to stare down the teachers’ union boss?
Source: New York Post
by the Editorial Board“City Council Speaker Julie Menin says she’s far more responsible than Mayor Zohran Mamdani; here’s his chance to prove her wrong on at least one front: the council’s obscene bid to shower $10,000 bonuses on public-school teaching assistants. United Federation of Teachers boss Mike Mulgrew threatens ‘all-out war’ if the mayor vetoes the bill to award the cash, but the mayor owes the UFT nothing — and it’s his duty to the general public to say no. No city union should ever get a raise outside the collective-bargaining process: Since City Hall can’t cut union pay in other ways, it’s robbing the taxpayers if it doesn’t make labor negotiate for any hike.” (07/27/26)
- The Inner Life of Liberalism, episode 4
Source: The Inner Life of Liberalism
“Jason S. Canon and Aaron Ross Powell are joined by Christina Bambrick of the University of Notre Dame to discuss her recent book, Constitutionalising the Private Sphere, as well as virtue, constitutional design, and how the two interact in America and abroad.” (07/27/26)
- Real Unity, episode 19
Source: Free the People
“Interracial Marriage & the Men Who Love Sundresses | Noelle Fitchett.” (07/27/26)
- Parallax Views w/ JG Michael, 07/27/26
Source: Parallax Views w/ JG Michael
“The Honesty Crisis w/ Christian Miller.” (07/27/26)
- Reason Roundtable, 07/27/26
Source: Reason
“The Democrats Have a Socialism Problem.” (07/27/26)
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/07/27/the-democrats-have-a-socialism-problem/